Opinion / Suddes: Proficiency test would weed out clueless lawmakers who fail Ohio Constitution 101 – By Thomas Suddes (Columbus Dispatch) / March 20, 2022
After taking almost a quarter-century to even try to properly fund public schools in Ohio, some members of the General Assembly are now preparing to dictate what should or shouldn’t be taught in Ohio’s classrooms — in accordance with whatever talk-show twaddle they’ve heard.
As it is, Ohio school pupils already must take a battery of proficiency tests — which a befuddled legislator once called “efficiency tests” — throughout their 12 years in the state’s elementary and high schools.
Meanwhile, the members of the state Senate and the Ohio House of Representatives are also aiming to block or at least limit serious consideration of America’s racial history and questions of gender identity. Perhaps like Henry Ford, some members of the legislature think that “history is more or less bunk.”
Maybe what Ohio really needs is a proficiency test for members of the General Assembly. That might screen out some of the more startling specimens that now occupy the no-concealed-carry Statehouse.
